In ordinary times, the Houhai Kingdom relied on its own powerful navy, which could also block the dangers of the sea, and from time to time it would take the initiative to attack and eliminate some extremely threatening pirate legions and sea brute beasts.

However, in recent years, with the turmoil in the livelihood of neighboring countries, a large number of ordinary poor people have either become displaced or have gone to the sea to become pirates, which has greatly strengthened the power of pirates, and the number of pirates has also increased sharply in recent years.

If in the past, the number of pirate groups around Houhai Country was ten, now it is directly two hundred.

The navy of the Houhai country has not had any time to rest in recent years, today to encircle and suppress the pirates here, tomorrow to rescue the merchant ships or islanders besieged by the pirates, and the day after tomorrow they have to escort the spirit stone ore ship back to the land and the location of the spirit stone mine......

The continuous operation has made the navy of the Houhai State exhausted now, and if it continues like this, it will be 100% if there is a problem.

Other problems are fine, at most they are a little loss, but if the ocean, and the spirit stone mine on the island, are in danger, it will really endanger the national capital of Houhai Country.

The biggest reason why the Houhai Kingdom can continue to exist under the threat of many powerful countries around it is not because of these spirit stone mines on the seabed and islands.

Every year after the sea country opened out of these spirit stone mines, the seven layers were paid out as protection fees, and half of the other three layers were also spent in the surrounding countries to purchase some military supplies, daily necessities, luxury goods and the like, and in the end, what could be left was about five layers.

Therefore, although there are a lot of spirit stone mines on the side of Houhai Country, however, there are not many of them left, so the surrounding countries are red-eyed, but they are not so red-eyed that they will send troops to occupy Houhai Country.

Of course, these countries do not fight the doctrine of the Houhai Kingdom, in addition to the fact that there are powerful countries behind the Houhai Kingdom, the biggest reason is that the nine-layer spirit stone mines of the Houhai Kingdom are located on the seabed and the surrounding islands.

If these spirit stone mines were located inland, then these countries would have already conquered Houhai Country.

It's just that now these spirit stone mines are located on the bottom of the sea and on the island, which makes it extremely difficult to mine, and if you don't have special personnel to mine them, you won't be able to mine spirit stones at all.

Even if the spirit stone is mined, there are not small problems here, such as transportation routes, as well as the protection of spirit stone mines, and the protection of transport ships.

The brute beasts are extremely sensitive to the smell of spirit stones, and they can 'smell' the smell of spirit stones hundreds of miles away, plus the number of aquatic brute beasts in the ocean is much more than the number of brute beasts on land, so every mined spirit stone mine will face the threat of countless brute beasts.

If you want to safely mine the Spirit Stone Mine, you first have to deal with the threat of these aquatic brute beasts, and this is obviously an extremely difficult matter.

For example, Houhai Country has also experienced nearly a thousand years and spent countless blood and lessons before it has some coping methods.

However, even if this is the case, every year after the sea country, the number of warriors who die because of the attack of these sea brute beasts is not less than 10,000.

This is 10,000 warriors, not more than 10,000 soldiers, and the losses here are huge, which can be imagined.

This is also the main reason why Houhai Kingdom obviously has so many spirit stone mines, but the number and quality of domestic warriors are not stronger than those of neighboring countries, and the number of warriors lost by Houhai Kingdom every year is really too large.

In addition, when transporting spirit stones, it is inevitable that you will face the threat of countless pirates.

The location of the spirit stone mine in the Houhai Kingdom is not a secret to those pirates, and even when the spirit stone is transported, it cannot be hidden from those pirates.

Therefore, as soon as the spirit stone transport ship began to transport, the countless pirates, like wolves smelling the smell of blood, gathered in clusters to attack.

Perhaps out of these thirty or forty attacks, one or two of them were attacked, and the others were failures.

However, even if there were only one or two successes, it would be enough for those pirates, because each success would bring millions or even tens of millions of spirit stones.

For millions, tens of millions of spirit stones, those pirates did everything, and they were willing to pay everything for it.

Therefore, every time the spirit stone is transported, it is a big war, which also leads to the death of tens of thousands of soldiers every year.

More than 10,000 warriors, plus the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers, the number of spirit stones they get is not much, on the contrary, they have to break their minds for this, in this case, it is better to let Houhai Kingdom face all this, anyway, the number of spirit stones they get will not be reduced to anywhere, even if it is less than what they have mined, but, it is not much, so until now, these countries have not sent troops to capture Houhai Kingdom.

In the past, the Houhai Kingdom could hold on, but in recent decades, the appropriate amount of pirate legions around the Houhai Kingdom has risen sharply, and it has not weakened until now, but there are more and more signs.

Houhai Kingdom's current naval combat strength can no longer be sustained, so Houhai Country is ready to expand its naval strength, and if you want to expand your navy, you must first have a war flying boat, no, Houhai Country will come here to buy a war flying boat.

The Hou Tang Kingdom, which is the sworn enemy of the Houhai Kingdom, also knows this very well, they don't care about the threat of those pirates that the Houhai Kingdom is facing, and even they wish that the Houhai Kingdom will be swallowed up by those pirates, because in this way, they can take advantage of the situation.

Therefore, in the auction of the War Flying Boat, the third princess of the Later Tang Kingdom tried every means to make trouble for the Houhai Kingdom and continuously increase the price of the War Flying Boat, because she knew that no matter how high the price was, the Houhai Kingdom would have to buy it.

Of course, the third princess is just making trouble, and when it comes to a certain price, she will let it go.

One is that she has already bought a war flying boat, completed the task, and if she buys it at a sky-high price, then not only will she not be rewarded by the emperor, but she will even be severely reprimanded, maybe she will not be in charge of the auction house in the future, which is definitely the last thing she wants to see for the third princess.

Therefore, in order to prevent Houhai Kingdom from directly giving up the bid because the price is too high, the third princess generally will not raise the price too much, so as not to shoot herself in the foot when the time comes.

Seeing the withdrawal of one of the most threatening competitors, Prince Li of Houhai Kingdom couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart.

In this bidding, Prince Li knew very well the thoughts of the third princess of the Tang Kingdom, he knew that she was just here to make trouble for him, and once the price reached a certain level, the third princess would give up, so for Prince Li, the biggest threat was actually the barbarian powerhouse.

Now, the barbarian powerhouse has launched this bid, and this war flying boat above the ninth floor is his.

However, even if this is the case, Prince Li's side is not easy, his brows have been wrinkled, because the third princess is really too difficult, and he doesn't know what price he will get in the end, and the third princess will let go.

Prince Li actually wanted to let it go, in order to give this third princess of the Later Tang Kingdom who didn't know what to do with it a good look, but when he thought of the current situation in the country, especially the threat of more and more pirates, Prince Li finally calmed down, he knew that this time he had to be fooled.

Now that the matter has been decided, Prince Li no longer hides it, he immediately whispered to the second prince who followed him here: "Hai'er, if the third princess asks for a price, you can directly bid for 2,100,000 spirit stones, and now our opponent is left with this one, and you also know the situation in the country, so we must take down this war ship, and we must not make any wrong decisions because of a moment of anger."

It is clear that there is a hatred between those guys in the Tang Kingdom and us, they wish that we would be destroyed by pirates, so even if the third princess provokes you again, you should not pay attention to it, let alone be fooled. You know, the most important task we're here this time is to buy the War Ship, understand?"

In order to avoid the second prince from making mistakes, Prince Li kept emphasizing.

"Yes, Uncle Huang, I understand, this top-level war flying boat belongs to our Zhou royal family, and no one can snatch it!"

The second prince Zhou Chenhai replied in a deep voice, his tone was heavy, and he was also extremely confident!

At this time, the third princess raised the sign in her hand with a smile and shouted loudly: "2010000 spirit stones!"

Seeing the third princess raise the bidding card in his hand, the second prince Zhou Chenhai here first glanced at the third princess with hatred, and then he immediately raised the bidding number plate in his hand and shouted loudly: "We bid 2,100,000 spirit stones, you follow again!"

With a ......"boom", the atmosphere in the auction hall was detonated again, and countless discussions sounded, warm and long-lasting.

Then came the exclamations that filled the audience!

"It's amazing, I didn't expect to break through to the price of 2100,000 spirit stones now, I'm really here today!!"

"The bidding price of a war flying boat is more than 2 million, and now it has directly hit 2,100,000 spirit stones, which is ..... This...... It's been a crazy day!"

"It seems that the Houtang Kingdom has indeed forced the Houhai Kingdom to be miserable, resulting in such a high price increase now, hehe, today's auction is really exciting!"

"In the future, the grievances between the Tang Kingdom and the Houhai Kingdom, I believe that this price is not the final price, and the heart of the third princess is very black!"

As the man said, this price is not the last one. /2_2797/